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African regenerative food economies nourish people and planet, restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and build long-term resilience.
Unlock transformative investment in a regenerative food system in Southern Africa that is healthy for people, planet and society.
Systems innovation. Design thinking. Behavioural insights. Warm Data. Storytelling. Co-creation.
Jess builds coalitions for systemic change, and helps ventures navigate and shift their enabling environment.
She worked with the UN, NGOs, start ups, and established companies to realise change in health, education, and democratic governance, working across silos.
She has coached major donors, both foundations and governments, and local
Jess builds coalitions for systemic change, and helps ventures navigate and shift their enabling environment.
She worked with the UN, NGOs, start ups, and established companies to realise change in health, education, and democratic governance, working across silos.
She has coached major donors, both foundations and governments, and local NGOs through organisational change. She specialises in adaptive, innovative financing and management methods, and impact measurement and learning.
She delivered multi-million-dollar, multi-donor, multi-country programs for the UN and ODI, testing service delivery models. She's led teams of up to 30 people across Asia and Africa.
Constanza is a strategist and innovation expert who has coached frontier social impact ventures in 30+ African, Latin American and Asian countries.
She has spent the last twelve years bringing funders, civil society organisations and innovators together to leverage money for a just future.
She is an expert facilitator, applying liberating
Constanza is a strategist and innovation expert who has coached frontier social impact ventures in 30+ African, Latin American and Asian countries.
She has spent the last twelve years bringing funders, civil society organisations and innovators together to leverage money for a just future.
She is an expert facilitator, applying liberating structures so participants can get the most out of gathering.
Former FAO, management consulting, and Brink.
We test new ideas boldly, and build them in the real world. We move fast where we can, and with care where we must. We believe in showing what’s possible.
We act on evidence, but we also embrace what can’t yet be measured. We learn by doing, by listening, by watching patterns emerge. We seek the right level of rigour for each moment. We share our learning as we go.
We approach our work with curiosity and creativity. We believe a regenerative future is possible and we work backwards from that vision to find practical steps today. We use imagination to unlock new pathways, while staying grounded in place and practice.
We build relationships of trust across sectors and geographies. We believe collaboration outperforms competition, and that regenerative change happens when diverse actors build together. We share the credit, the work, and the rewards.
We aim to shift power toward those closest to the land and the challenges we seek to address. We co-create across boundaries of power, privilege, language and expertise — patiently, persistently, and with humility.
There is so much power at intersection of Jess's adaptive thinking, operational smarts and skilled leadership abilities. This is a real superpower - I know lots of people who can talk a good talk when it comes to teaming and adaptation, but the ability to turn it into concrete processes, structures and business models is rare and the difference between talking a good game and getting stuff done. Jess is solidly #gsd. Lea Simpson, Brink
I find Jess to be so good at articulating something that is quite complex so that everyone understands and, consequently, gets on board. This also really helps when we encounter resistance and experience uncertainty. Jess excels at strategising accordingly and establishing excellent rapport with others and making them ‘shine’. Jess Sondhi, UK Ministry of Justice
In the tricky knotty times, Jess is able to bring clarity and calmness to tense environments, and not let some of those dynamics cloud her judgement and views, even where her view might differ from the majority. This is such a strength. Miranda Dixon, Brink
I experience Jess as a thoughtful, motivated and dedicated professional. She is a very good listener and adapts quickly to client requests – with me being the client in this case. Benjamin Kumpf, OECD
I am continually in awe of the how much raw intelligence she applies to the work she does, and critically how it results in real, tangible products. Jess is very good at deeds over words, and bringing things to life quickly. James Wilkson, Brink
I spend so much of my time trying to learn from what Jess does. Strategy in uncertainty is her particular speciality: how she led the team was so key to success in the extensive restrategising that we did after the first year of the Oxygen CoLab. Nick Moore, DT Global
We connect the worlds of private finance, social impact, philanthropy and international development. We build coalitions of funders, experts and implementers to drive transformational change aligned, adaptive, and anchored in systemic impact.
We design and run venture building programmes that help African founders turn breakthrough ideas into investable, regenerative businesses rooted in place, connected to community, and aligned with planetary boundaries. We coach ventures through the messy middle of building regenerative businesses, and foster venture learning communities where founders can share insights, test ideas, and build trust-based networks.
We design practical learning and impact frameworks for regenerative finance. We help foundations learn from their portfolios, bioregional facilities measure what matters, founders track and communicate impact, and impact investing advisors extend their capacity—all in service of better, bolder decision-making.
We help family offices and foundations build impact strategies. We apply innovation methods to help funders develop adaptive and collaborative strategies for impact that move beyond the page into real life. This is in service of our coalition and venture building efforts.